IDEV 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading 4: Post-Structuralism, Empiricism, Intersubjectivity
21 Jan 2017
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Urges us to think and reflect on the spatial fabric of everyday life. Consider the structure of our social relations, how we are accountable for them and how our actions perpetuate these relations. Process of making geography in a time of value-free research. Feminism and poststructuralism allows a range of voices to speak. Neopositvist empiricism: strict dichotomy between object and subject as a prerequisite for objectivity. Impersonal, neutral detachment is important for good research. Cannot put our common sense of structures aside when doing research. Knowledge of person being researched is greater than the researcher. Qualitative research offers the opportunity to convey the inner life and texture of the diverse social enclaves and personal circumstances of societies. Reflexivity is self-critical sympathetic introspection of being a researcher. Research is a process and not just a product. Reflecting on, learning from past experiences, being critical. Increases the probability may be transformed by the input of the researched.
